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Ronceverte lumber boom river town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: boom chains, mill crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1907 historic-map era
St Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing town that rafted Greenbrier white pine to giant mills from the 1880s; boom-era fill and refuse line the river flat.
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